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DREAM LlfE.
and i will ^ell you,
seem so glad,
J<m changing,
•me so grave and sad.
MKpl. ___
With my couriers r6nnd my throne.
Half my life "is full of sorrow,
But the other one is true.
While I live and feast on gladness, /
Still I feel the fought r«m%in, .
This must soon end—nearer, nearer,
Comes the life of grief and pain.
"While I live a wretched beggar,
One bright hope my lot can cheer,
Soon, soon, thou shall have thy kingdom,
Brighter *Loip> are drawng n<^ .- ^
Sq soil see my Ifie is tyfrfold(** . ; ]
Half a pleasure, hdTTa grief;
Thus all joy is somewhat tempered,
And all sorrow finds relief
Which, you ask me, is*tlie real life,
Which the dream—the joy or woe?
Hush, friend, it is little matter,
And indeed, I never {know.
SWEET CHARITY.
"C f A re .. 1 k ;
Hr and Mrs. Haicbim Blythe were
seated at breakfast.
The steak was broiled tq perfection,
and the aroma from the steaming coffee-
nrn sent forth an appetizing odor.
But as the yonng wafe^atehqd her
bnshand's enjoyment of the daintily- 1 will take yon home, and see where yon
welled up from their fountains, and
stood for a moment in her eyes, then
rolled slowly down her cheeks.
•■‘•Poor little Nettie,” she said, half-
akaS, “how J. wish I could, buy them
fbryun.”
“Who is little Nettie?" askad a gentle
voice, sad looking^np, the girl
for tile moment
power to answer.
It was so kind anA'sympsthetic.-that
her tears came faster' tnd faster. „
At last she found her voice, and man
aged to stammer .out, notwithstanding
the lump in het throat, which seemed
to rise and almost choke her—
“Nett'e is my little only sister. We
two are all alone in the world, and oh,
ma’am, I love her so dearly.”
“Did you think those stockings you
were ld0lfftig~at would fit her?!’
“Yj* hm’atn^ and I've been trying to
‘earfr enough' mon'ey by sewing to get
them for her, but I couldn’t"
“She shall have some stockings, and
some nice worm underclothing, and a
dress too. You shall come with me and
select them.”
It did not take long to make the in
tended purchases.
Then Mrs. Blythe led the wandering
igiid put to ■ where her Tuxurieusly-cush-
ioked phseton was' in waiting, and in a
few moments they where being whirled
rapidly along the crowded streets.
“Now put your hands into my muff
aud get them nioe and warm, while you
toil me ail about yourself and Nettie. 1
cooked viands, her face wore a look of
abstraction not usually seen upon it.
At last Mr. Blythe noticed it;.and
also that she was not eating—but mere
ly toying with the bit of toast upon her
plate.
“What’s the matter, Letty?” he asked,
with a look of concern.
“Are you ill?”
“No, Malcolm, I was only thinking.”
Malcolm gave a long low whistle to
emphasize his surprise.
“Thinking! my bright chatty little
girl; stopping her merry nonsense long
enough lor such an unusual operation!
what can it be about?”
Letty drewheraelf up with an assump
tion of injured dignity;-but her eyes
and smiling lips bore witness that she
was not deeply offended.-
“You treat me so like a child, Mal
colm, that I have almost grown^to think
that; though a marrieid' woman, 1 can
still avoid all tryiDg responsibilities, and
make life one grand holiday.
“But I am beginning to see things in
a new light.
~ “I may have but the one talent—still
I have no right to waste it. I feel thor
oughly ashamed of myself to be such an
idler in thiB busy world.”
Malcolm looked into the earnest eyes
with aniock seriousness of expression
m his own brown orbs as he said—
“Well, Pnss, I am Sony if I’m going
to lose my pleasant little companion,
and have a loug-i'aoed reformer take her
smiled. ^ • —
“Not so bad as tbat, I hope. Is it
not possible to do something to make
other people either better or happier,
without being *long-faced’ or disagree
able myself?”
By t.his time Mr. Blythe was ready to
put on his overcoat,
Letty, as usual, helped him to get into
it, then put up her l ; ps for a kiss.
She looked very winsome, with the
seriousness of an awakening soul cloud
ing her innocent eyes, and giving a
somewhat plaintive droop to the lips,
clear-cut in their outlines, yet red and
pouting as a cleft cherry.
Malcolm kissed her fondly; then
pinching her cheek, playfully said—
“I’ll give you a mission for to-day.
Put on your pretty things, and go and
buy some presents for your little sisters.
Then come home with such a bright
face that I con warm my heart in its
sunshine.”
Letty felt a pardonable glow of pride
and pleasure in her handsome husband
as she watched him stride off, tnrning
now and then to nod anotner “good
bye” to her, until the tram car come
along which was to take him down to
his office.
He had bought a neat little phaeton,
for her use, but seldom stepped into it
hiniBplf »
She sighed as she turned away,
V though, leeling disappointed thatllal-
. colni had treated the matter so lightly.
• But with an effort she threw off the
transient cloud, and went to her room
to dress and cariy out his suggestion.
She was the eldest daughter of a large
family.
Her father had never been able to
afford his children the. luxuries of life
out of his limited salary.
So it was a novelty to her to own a
purse so plethoric-with bank-notes that
she could buy a present for every one
of her sisters.
As she had been married but a few
mouths, it was her first shopping expe
dition and she soon forgot the serious
- thoughts m the excitement of selecting
something to please each individual taste
among the dear ones at home. T
Malcolm' Blythe was a wealthy, rising
vouug lawyer.
He had been captivated by Letty’s
pretty modest face, as he listened to her
graduation .composition, delivered at
the closing exercises of the free school
of which she had been an exemplary
pupil for several years,
. . He obtained an introduction, and to
the surprise of the gay world of winch
he was considered an ornament, six
months after their first meeting Letty
was installed mistress of a perfectly-
aupointed mansion in one of the pieaa-
pSest streets in town.
/v“Dear Maloolm,” she thought grate
fully, as she stepped into her pine ton
and' was whirled away. “It isn't every
husband who would give his wife ieave
to spend money for her family.”
Her destination was an_£Lten£ive es
tablishment where nearly even want
could be supplied—from a lady’s outfit
' to a child’s simplest toy. -
■ As she walked through the different
departments she found herself attracted
by one face, amid the passing throng.
It was so young, yet so sad; with a
strained eager look in the large eyes
which-gave them an unnatural expres
sion.
Unconsciously Mrs Blythe followed
the girl as she paused before the differ
ent counters, then went on again with
out buying anything.
At last she paused before a counter
upon which lay a variety of warm stock -
. ings whose dainty proportions showed
- that they were intended for tiny teet.
She took up a pair and looked at
them wistfully; at last, with a deep
, putting them carefully back in
r original place.
s Abe turned away large tear-drops
live and what I can do for yon.”
Nanny’s story was soon told.
I will give it in her own words—
“We live on the top floor of cumber
five, Walton St. Poor mother broke
her heart after father’s death, anu only
lived two months. I have earned what
I could by doing coarse sewing; but.
work is cut off and pay was so poor that
I hadn’t Baved anything.
“I’ve tried to pick np odd jobbs, but
they are hard to find. I haven’t begged
yet, though 1 walked up aud down a
good- wnile to-day, trying to get up
courage to ask for some pennies just to
get Nettie some bread and milk, but I
couldn’t.”
Team were in Mrs. Blythe s eyes as
she listened to the pitiful story.
Then she said—
‘ ‘She shall not lack again for what she
needs. I will hely you until work gets
briskmgain.”
As they entered the cold, bare-looking
room, it did not seem at first to be
tenanted.
But at last a curly bead peeped out
from under a blanket which covered the
meagre apology for a couch.
Little Nettie had crept under it to
keep herself warm.
As she eaught sight of her sister she
gave a glad cry.
Then seeing the Btrange lady Bhe
shrank back timidly.
"Don’t be afraid, Nettie,” said the
kind voice; “I am going to stay here
bBKUpMM. coal
ling to get you a
and wood, and something'
warm snpper with.”
While Nanny was away she produced
the warm, bright-colored stockings, and
told Nettie to put them on.
It takes but a trifle to make a child
forget sorrow, and be gay with the
gayest, and Nettie’s face absolutely
shone with joy, and her baby tongue
was soon prattling away as though she
had known Mr.- Blythe all her life.
When that lady went home ner own
heart was full of the reflected happiness
which she had bestowed upon Nanny
and Nettie.
That evening after her husband had
donned dressing-gown and slippers, she
told him the story of her day’s work,
half-expecting he would make sport of
her in Ills usual kind, but satirical fash
ion.
He listened in silence, apparently
counting the purple rings which curled
upwards from his cigar.
When she had finished he turned to
her—
‘.'Do you know what you are doing,
Letty? You are encouraging pauperism!
It is evidently my duty to reprimand
you seriously.”
Letty looked at him in a puzzled way;
but a merry twinkle in his brown eyes
betrayed him.
“Oh, Maloolm! you are too bad! you
are making fun of me.”
“Not at all Letty; I shall take your
punishment mto my own hands at
once,”
And before the yonng wife knew of
his intentions he drew her upon his
knee and kissed her tenderly.
“I see you’ve found your mission;
Letty; and you may do ail the good you
wish to while I find the funds. Does
that seem right and good in yonr
r ea?”
“Maloolm, you’re an angel!”
The answer was' somewhat irrelevant,
bnt it was satisfactory.
Mrs. Blythe soon obtained steady
employment for Nanny.
Besides being enabled to support
herself and little Nettie comfortably,
she was slowly and snrely laying np a
sum of money against a “rainy day.”
Would that every happy, prosperous
woman felt, it to lie her mission to lift
the burden from some suffering sister.
Sparing something for “sweet
charity’s sake” out of her own abun
dance, and thus laying up a store of
that imperishable treasure which
“neitier moth nor dust doth corrupt.”
Osier Willows.
The demand for basket willows in
this country appears to be unlimited.
We import a large quantity from Eu
rope, and peeled willow is worth 10
cents a pound in New York. We liave
taken occasion several limes, speaking
of diversified industries, to call the
attention of our people owning river
and creek lands, or wet land, to the
great value of planting osiers. We
doubt whether at this time any orchard
or crop will pay so well, leaving out
the fact that lands too wet for cultiva
tion can be used and made profitable.
There are in New York little townships
that produce over 1,000 tons of wil
lows. Frequently this crop is sold
green as out and brings about $30 per
ton, and this would clear about $500 per
acre or more. Now; we have another
idea: What are called the false banks
on Jamas nver are very rich and would
produce osiers as thick as wheat, and
of the best quality. This crop, beside
its money value, would protect the
banks and thus prove doubly valuable.
As. soon as we produoe willows and
broom earn we shall have springing up
in the villages basket and broom fac
tories, just as sheep walks and cotton
fields are insuring woollen mills and
cotton factories.
A Race for a Kiss.
A butter pedler from Honey Lake re
lutes with great glee how a neighbor of his
was cured of too frequent tipping the gin-
bottle. This neighbor married a young,
handsome spirited lady, aud for a month
two all went well in the house and
iut the farm; then the husband fell
back into his old tricks. The wife remon
strated and for a time the husband re-
1 Presently, however, -she became
flhat the' “bottle tipping” was
lug on. When , she spoke to her
id -about the matter be swore that
"aroma” she detected was that of a
^-medicine he was taking,, he having
iped a most intractable colic; for the
of which he had brought heme and
fed ajjpttfc of medicine.
The wife was confidept tbat there was
kept somewhere about the premises a con
siderable store of a very different kind of
medicine. She kept her ewu counsel and
at the same time a strict watch. In a da;
or two she discovered under a manger in
thttkecu the secret hoard. She said noth
ing of thadiseovery to her husband.
■ Saahjkftpr the huspand had business at a
neighbor'sTKime two miles away. On his
return he was somewhat surprised at see
ing a note pinned upon his front door.
~lc hastily advanced and read as follows :
“Ben: You will find the key of the
jtonse where yon keep your colic medicine.
( have taken Kitty and gone home to my
pother. Father and brother Bub will come
to-morrow for the trunk in which 1 have
packed my things. Nklli*:”
The husband rushed to the barn. At a
glance he saw tbat Kitty, his wife’s mare,
and the side-saddle were gone. Darting
be hauled out his corpulent
ucmijohn,«*f gin, and suspended from its
neck found the key of the house.
Securing the key. he sent the demijohn
whizzing and crashing against a post of
the hath. Bounding forth, he ran to and
mounted the horse he had left standing in
front of his house.
Away he dashed. It was ten miles to
the house ot his father-in-law, and he was
determined to overtake his wife before she
could reach it or kill a borse in the at
tempt.
Said the butter man: “Now, I seed
Ben’s wife come over the hill, half a mile
south of my house, on her little mare Kit
ty, and begin to perform some queer abo.
lotions. After she’d got over the brow o’
the hilt ehe paced up an’ down the road
or a time; then she rid up aDd looked
over the ridge for a whiie. After lookin’
a bit she tamed about and rid up and down
the road a few times, then went up to the
totww o’ the hill again. So she-kept doin’;
an’ once or twice^he got off and led Kitty
up to the top of the hill.
I was puzzled as to whether she was
waitin’ for somebody or had lost something
while on her way to her father’s’ placq,
some four miles lieyoad my house. I was
just about to walk out that way when 1
seed her wheel Kitty round from the brow
o’ the hill and begin to play ber whip.
“In half a minute ehe was tty in' past my
place like a wild woman. I stood at my
front gate by the roadside, realty to hoi let
out at her to know what was up, hut, bless
you, she never lookednto'arcajjita. dilst
eyes seemed sot in her head, her face was
pale and at every jump she let into Kitty
with a whip. 1 swar, her ndin’-skut fairly
cracked as she bounded past.
“Jist then I heerd a tremendjus clatter
behind me. Turnin’ about, i seed Beu a
cornin’ over the pitch of the hill on bis big
black hoss, like a wild Comanche. He
was ridin' with loose reins, leamn’ away
for’ard, and diggin’ his big spurs into his
horse like he’d np his insides out.
“He passed by, with hair and coat-tail9
sailin’ back in tbe wind, and never turning
bis head to right nor left. I thought 1
seed murder in his eye. 1 tell you, a mil
lion thoughts went through my brain in a
second. All the stories I’d ever heard
about jealous husbands and insane hus
bands went through my head m a lump,
and I do believe If I’d my gun in my band
I’d have taken a wingshot at him on sus
picion.
1 seed Nell look back once and then lay
•the whip on Kitty hotter’n ever. Ben
was goin’ like the wind. I knowed Nell
was headed for her father’s; and I seed
plain as day that Ben would get her ’fore
she was safe landed.
“At last he was upon her. It then was
neck and neck for a time, with Ben reach
ing out for Kitty’s bridle. At last he got
it, and the two horses gradually slowed
up till the; finally stopped. 1 mounted
my gate-post all of a tremble; expectin' to
see somethin’ dreadful happen.
“They stopped in the road talkin’ nigh
onto half an hour ; then I seed Ben leau
over and Nell lean over till thar two heads
come together.
What the mischief 1’ says I, ‘Kisfiu’
instead of killin’. Well, that sort o’fraeas
gits met’ After the head-bumpin’ the
pair turned about and came slowly joggin’
along back.
.“As they passed me I called out to Ben
to know what in the living jingo it all
meant. Ben Degan to stammer something
’bout half of which nefer got through his
big beard, when Nell sings ont to me:
Only a race for a kiss I” and givin’ Kitty
i cut that made her bound ten feet, she
called out to Beu : ‘Come on 1 A race to
the top of the hill for another I’ aud away
they both went
“That was five years ago, and I never
knowed the meaniu’ of that wild harum-
scarum ride till ’bout three months ago,
when the story ’bout the ‘colic medicine’
leaked out among the wimmen folks. For
a good while after the nds, howsumtver,
I remember o' the neighbor men wonder
in’ what had coins over Ben that he had
shut down on his gin all of a sudden and
wouldn't so much as take a glass o’ Oregon
cider.
“To this day no doubt Ben Thinks he
had a desperate chase after Nell. apd a
narrer escape of her gittin’ mto the home
den ’long with her big brother, her father
and bis mother-in-law; and I’ve never
said a word to him ’bout how she fooled
long under the prow o’ the ML ”
An Adventure in Calabria.
I was traveling at one time m Calabria
—a country o' bad people who, I believe
love nobody, and hate the French with a
mortal hatred, and a Frenchman who lell
into their hands was likely to fare badly.
My traveling companion was a young man
of 20. The roads in the mountains are
very precipitous, and it was with great
difficulty that our horses advanced at ad
comrade rode in front and, taking a
path which seemed to him shorter and
more practicable, we soon found we had
lost our way. To return upon our steps
or to find a path that would lead us out of
the.woods, seemed equally impossible.
We sought for one while the day lasted,
but the more we sought, the farther we
plunged into the depths ot the forest, and
it was black night, when, at last we
arrived at a little house as black. We
entered, not without suspicion, but we had
no choice.
Within we found a family of charcoal-
burner* at their supper, which they in
vited us to share with almost then first
words. . My companion did not wait far
Ihe mvitatk n to be repeated, and-in a
moment, we were eating and drinking with
them,—he wav at least; as for myself. I
-was chit fly occupied in examining the
place and the faces of our hosts. They
bad the appearance of charcoal-burners,
but the house might have been taken for
an arsenal. On every ride were guns,
pistols, sabers, knives, cutlasses, AH this
displeased me, and I saw well that 1
pleased the people as little. My comrade,
on the. contrary, made himself one of the
family, he laughed, he chatted with them,
and with a singular imprudence winch 1
ought to have foreseen,—for I should not
have trusted to a head of 20 .years,—be
told whence ~we came,"Whither we were
going, and, worse than all,That we .were
Frenchuien Imagine a little:—alone, lost,
among mortal enemies, far tromall human
help; and, that nothing might be lacking
that couid-deatroy ns, he pretended to be
rich, and promised these people whatever
they wiahed for our expenses and tor a
guide the next day I At last he spoke of
his valise, prayed them to take 'the greatest
care of it and to place it at -tiw-head of the
bed. - He wished, he said, no other pillow.
One would have believed he carried the
diamonds of tbe crown—when what caused
him such anxiety in that valise was only
the letters of his lady love.
The supper ended, the people all left
us. Our hosts slept m a room below; an
attic ot loft raised six or eight feet above
the room in wbicb we had eaten, and to
which, we climbed by a ladder, was the
sleeping apartment that awaited us,—a
sort of nest into which we introduced our
selves by creeping unddr rafters laden
with provisions sufficient for an entire
year. My companion climbed first, threw
himself upon the bed, 'and was asleep in a
moment. Determined to watch, 1 made a
good fire and seated" mysel f by it.' ‘' 1
The night wore away very quietly. 1
was beginning to be reassurred and to
think my fears and suspicions wholly
groundless, whetv-iust,.before daybreak,
as it seemed to ire, X heard the voices of
our host and his wife in loud talk, appar
ent.; arguing. Placing my ear to the
chimney, which communicated with the
room below, I clearly distinguished these
words from the husband:—
“Well, let us see finally, will it be nec-
cessary to kill them both I”
To which the wile replied, “Yes, kill
them both.”
1 heard nothing more—I stood breath
less—my whole body‘cold as marble, to
haye seen me, you would scarcely have
known whether I was dead or living.
Heavens I when 1 think of it even now, 1
shudder. We two, almost without arms,
against 15 or 20 who had so many, and
my comrade dead with sleep of fatigue 1
To call him, to make a sound, 1 dared not;
to escape without him, I could not; be
sides, though the window was not high
beneath it were two great bull dogs bowl
ing like wolves. Imagine, if you can, the
norror of my situation 1
At the Cud of a quarter of an Lour’
which seemed long enough, 1 assure you,
I heard the seund of steps upon the stair
case. and looking through the crack of the
door saw the husbatn , a lamp in one hand
in the other one at his great knives. He
ascended the sta.rs, opened the door,
passed the lamp to his wife, who had fol
lowed him, then entered with bare feet.
Shading the lamp with her fingers, his
wife, from without, said to him, “Softly,
go softly.’' He reached the ladder, mount
ed it with his knife between his teeth, and
coming to the head of the bed on which
the poor young man was extended uncon
scious, helpless, offering his bared throat,
with one hand he took his knife, with the
other, he seized Ah cousin 1 1 tell
this to you because It is the truth
he seized a great leg of ham
that was suspended from a beam, cut a
large slice from it, and retired as he bad
come; the lamp was withdrawn, the door
closed and I left to my own reflections.
As soon as it was daylight the whole
family came with a great noise to wake us,
as we had desired. A very good break
fast was served to us, I assure you; two
fowls made a part of it, one of which,
said our hostess, we must eat, and the
other we must cany away with us. Hu
seeing them 1 comprehended at once the
meaning of those terrible words "Will it
be necessary to kill them both,” and you,
1 believe, have sufficient penetration to
divine without explanation wbat they sig
nified
’ Moscow and the Kremlin.
Hunting Panthers.
There were some famous panther
hunters in Sullivan County, New York,
in early days. Besides Darbee there
were the Overtons, Peter Stewart,
Cyrus Dodge, Nelson Crocker, and
many others. Peter Stewart is still
alive, and mnst be getting along toward
ninety years of age. He lives in Boca-
iand, where he was born. The narra
tive of his adventures would make a
book. Cyrus Dodge killed more pan
thers m one single hunt than any other
hunter that ever lived. He killed seven
in less than one hour. He was hunting
one day in' the Spring of 1818, and
when In the neighborhood of Long
Pond discovered a panther’s den. It
had two kittens in it, the old panthers
being away on* a foraging expedition.
He took 'both the yonng ones and
started home with them, placing them
inside his hunting shirt. He hadn’t
gone far before he heard the mother
yelling behind him. He knew he was
in for a fight, and placed himself in a
position to dc his best. Pretty soon
the panther came tearing along through
the woods. When she caught sight of
Dodge she bounded to within thirty
feet of him and crouched for a spring.
He shot her, but did not kill her. Her
cries were terrible, and Dodge knew
that in a short time any other panthers
there might be in the vicinity would
soon hasten to ihe scene, bhe was
disabled, and another shot pnt an end
to her. Then Dodge made for the
pond, which was a hail mile or so away.
Cries from all sides told him that he
was not yet through with alt his work.
By the time he reached the pond he
could hear panthers leaping through
the branches of the trees. A panther
will not enter water. Dodge waded
ont as far as he could and prepared lor
business. Within guushot of him he
discovered five large panthers in the
trees. He killed one at the first fire.
The loud mewing of the kittens under
bis shirt could evidently be heard by
the old panthers, for none ot them lelt
the spot at the sound of the gnn.
They bounded frantically m the branch
es, and two of them rushed to the
water’s edge and shrieked and lashed
their tails in fury. Dodge shot both
of these, and killed the other two, and
two more that reenforced them without
leaving his tracks in the pond. The
skin of the largest of these panthers is
stall preserved by the family. Dodge
took the kitiens home, but as they grew
they became so savage that they had to
be killed.
—Coinage at tbe various mints in the
U- S. for February, $4,548,360, of which
$2,100,000 was standard, doltars.
In spite of the threats of the Nihi
lists, preparations for the coronation of
the Czar Alexander III. arc progress
ing at Moscow, aud news comes daily
of some new and more expensive elabo
ration of the machinery for the impe
rial Asgeantiy. The Kremlin, wherein
the principal ceremonies will be per-
forzqfd, is one of the most remarkable
structures in the world. Its nsual
designation in the West, “the palace of
the Kremlin,” is entirely misleading.
There is within its walls a palace, it is
tree, and a most magnificent one in
point ot both extent and decoration,
bnt that is only a small portion of the
whole, which is a combination of for -
tress, wrseual, ecclesiastical capita],
official headquarters and imperial resi
dence all in one. The Kremlin is really
the citadel of Moscow, and undoubtedly
occupies the entire area of the ancient
city. It is surrounded by an’ earthen
rampart varying from 30 to 50 feet in
height, at whose base on one side flow
the waters of the river Moskwa. With
in the walls, overlooked by the tower
of Ivin the Great, whose gilded cross
is 325 feet from the ground, are cathe
drals, churches, palaces, monasteries
and hronnments grouped together with
out $ny attempt at symmetry of ar
rangement and representative of almost
evety known variety of architectural
design and period. Thera are the
Cathedral of the Assumption, in which
every Czar since Ivan the Terrible has
been crowned, and in which it is in
tended Alexander’s coronation shall
take place next May; the Cathedral of
the Archangel, where the bones of all
the Romanoff a np to the time of Peter
the Great he bnried; the Cathedral of
the Annunciation, formerly the place of
baptism and marriage ot the imperial
family; the Church of the Redeemer,
one of the oldest buildings in Moscow,
if not in Europe; the Miracle Monas
tery, the Asoensiou Convent and the
Sacristy of the Holy Synod, where the
robes and sacred vessels of the patri
archs are preserved.- These are the
religious edifices. Ntxt comes the pal
ace, built on the site'of the one de
stroyed by Rostopehiu’s torches when
Napoleon’s army was driven out to
freeze in the dread winter of 1812-13
This structure, a large portion of u
erected by the Emperor Nicholas- he
whose heart broke when his armies
met defeat in the Crimea—contains
many magnificent halls dedicated to
the various orders of Russian knight-
hoed. In this, too, is the treasury,
where, os in a vast museum, are con
tabled arms, armor, relics, regalia ana
other treasures illustrative of the his
tory of the ancestors of the Czar. The
Arsenal, an imposing structure of im
posing strength, occupies the angle of
the Kremlin, and there, when the de-
Citres by Electricity.
“Why don’t yon take some slock hi
the new electric lightcompany.” said an
aged man to a middle aged man, as they
stood np to a bar taking a drink.
“Not none.” said the middle aged
man, as he stirred the beverage with a
spoon, and swallowed it—not the spoon
hut the beverage. “There’s too much
electricity, I tell you. and I don’t know
where the electricity craze is going to
end. We send messages by electricity,
talk by it, onr streets and houses are to
be lighted by it, i nd now they have got
to using it to care diseases with. Why,
do you know, they advertise to cure
everything with electricity. Yon know
my wife? Well, she thinks she has every
disease under the snn, and she is a walk
ing galvanic battery. I dare not touch
her unless I touch a gas pipe or some | p'ozzuoli, a suburb of Naples’ is*a blind
iron substance first, or a spark will fly | crater known as the Solfatara, and
Etna and His Neighbors.
Mount Etna’s eruption is only
partial Success this time, but even a
part ial eruption from Etna means more
than a complete activity in many other
volcanoes. The vulcanic chain in .South
ern Italy, Sicily and the adjoining
islands is one of the most interesting in
the world. From its position bi the
centre of civilization the system has for
nearly twenty-five hundred years afford
ed the best means of studying the phen
omena of volcanoes, and' it is safe to
say that every symptom of Vesuvius
and Etna has been observed and that all
the important symptoms have been re
ported since the days of Pliny. The
Bay of Naples itself is now believed by
geologists to be the remains of an enor
mous crater, along whose edges small
jets still exist, Vesuvius being the most
important. Thus for miles along the
shore hot springs, rumblings, sulphur
beds and other evidences of internal
dynamic energy are met with. At
from my hands and startle me. Yon
haven’t seen her lately, eh? Well she
looks iwioe as big as she ever did be
fore, but she is poor from c'Trying
around electric belts and pads. First,
she saw an advertisment in a Chicago
paper of an electric belt, and she
wouldn’t be satisfied till I got her one,
and to keep peace in the family I took
her measure down to Chicago and got a
belt, and she pnt it on and said she felt
better. Then she wanted a pair ot
electric insohs for her shoes, and I got
them. Then she wanted an electric
snpporter, and I thought it would be a
good way to support her, and I got one
for her. Then she wanted an electric
stomach and liver brace, and I got that.
I thought she was pretty well protected
against the majority of the diseases the
hnman family is subjected to, bat t he
saw some more pictures of electric ap
pliances in the paper,and I hod to buy
her some back pads, and breast collars,
and electric stockings, and she will want
the rest of the harness, including a sur
cingle and headstall. Why, John,
honestly. I will give you leave to shoot
at my wife with a shot gun loaded with
fine shut, tor five cents a shot, and will
give you a dollar for eveiy shot that
touches her person. She is enveloped
in a perfect coat of electric mail, and
she isn’t very well yet. O, I forgot the
knee pads and hair crimpers. I expect
she will won t a telephone line next, and
a tower with an electric light of four
hundred candle power. We’il, I don’t
know as this electric business in my
taken from the enemies of tbe Czar.
The great bazaar of Moscow is an enur-
monS^.tracfureVcoveftng three squires,
three stories high and intersected by
numerous narrow streets and passage
ways. In its storehouses it is calcula
ted there are stockirof all sorts of goods,
amonnting in average value to between
$55,000,000 and $60,000,000, and this
represents only a comparatively small
portion of the value of the general
merchandise within the city, there
being other bazaars and market places
of almost equal extent crammed with
valuable stocks of goods. The destruc
tion of such a city would be an incal
culable disaster to Russian wealth and
commerce. Wnether the Nihilists pos
sess power sufficient to carry out their
threats remains to be seen. It is now
almost certain that the Emperor has
abandoned, if he ever entertained, the
idea of making any concessions to their
demauds.
spot of the Rossias walks, he surveys , , ......
with pride a collection of captured t£- j lamlI y does any good, but it is a great
piiies of war, among them 635 cannon saving on j ills and things. Before she
struck this electric fake it was a cold
day when the drag man’s hand-cart did
not stop at my house, but now all tshe
bnys at a drag store is porous plasters
and perfume. Why, she used to have a
regular time car., hung up in her room
for taking medicine, and it required the
brain of a chief justice to prevent get
ting the different kinds of medicine in
at the wrong times. I have seen her
take seven different kinds of little white
pills in a half day, and never miss a pill
or get the wrong kind, and every pill
looked just alike, and there was no taste
or smell to them. It was a great strain
or her mink, and may be this electricity
is doing her good, ia resting ber imai
leek All yon have to do is to buckle
on the magnetic corset, or surcingle,
and it goes right to work at the drop ot
the hat, snd the same one is good for a
child in arms or a vetran a hundred
years old. There is no doabt in my
mind that science has simplified things
wonderfully, and if my wife is not cured
it will not be her fault. But no elec
tric light stock for me, H I should
carry home a block of electric light
stock my wife would buckle it on to her
somewhere, and swear she experienced
great releif. But I will have to go, as
1 have heard of an electric bunion, per-
suaid and corn anniliilator a man is sell
ing down on tbe Sonth side, aud my
wife wants one. Good-day.”
Wilderness ot Canary Birds.
The recent annual report of the Hildes-
heim Board of Trade closeB the chapter
on the purchase and sale of animal pro
ducts with an allusion to a branch of
trade no longer uncommon within the
sphere of its ac'ion. The firm of C.
Reiche, in Alfeld, dealers in animals,
origina ly raising and selling canary
birds only, but of late years a rival of
the groat Hamburg house of Hagen beck
appended a detailed statement of sales
of wild beast, ruminants, pachyderms
and birds, which its travelers in Africa
and Australia had purchased, as well as
of canary birds bought and exported to
countries beyond the seas. The increase
in the importation of foreign singing and
ornamental birds during 1882, over 60
per cent, of which were resold to foreign
countries, was a marked one. The trm
bought in Germany 42,000 male and 20.
600 female canaries, besides 4300 wild
birds, a total of 66.9C0 birds, of which
48,200 were sent to the United States,
1500 to South America, 1200 to South
Africa, 13,000 to England; tbe remain
ing 3000 died. O; foreign animals there
were imported by the house 90 wild
beast, ruminants and pachyderms, 200
long-legged and other large birds, be
sides 9350 ornamental and singing birds
from America, Africa and Australia, of
which 50 per cent, remained in Ger
many, the rest going to France, Belgium,
Holland, England aud tbe United States.
The food consumed by tne birds alone
amounted to the respectable quantity of
27 tons, viz., 19 tons of rape seed and 8
tons of hemp, millet and other seeds,
besides auts’ eggs, 1200 pounds of bis
cuit and 9600 hen egr-
Bed Sea Liahtliouse.
The Egyptian Government has com
menced tbe erection of a lighthouse on one
of the rocks in the Red Sea known as the
Brothers. The Brothers are two small
coral islets in the Red Sea. about one mile
from each other, tbe depth of water be
tween them varying from 100 to 250
fathoms. The northern islet is about 8
quarter of a mile long and 100 yards wide,
and a beacon is situated on it in latitude
26 deg. 18* 50 north,and longitude 34 ilcg.
50, 44 east, and it ia iu close proximity to
this beacon that the new lighthouse 1- be.
ing constructed. T he foundations are now
being laid for a circular stone tower,
which is to be thirty-five feel in height,
with a winding staircase to its summit.
Rooms for the lighthouse keeper are to be
built in the form of a sort of court round
the tower. The stone is being quarried
and the lime burned on the island itself,
and an abundant supply of drinking water
provided by a condenser winch has
been fitted up on the island. The work
will bejeempieted about the end of April,
when the light—a fixed white dioptric
light of 3} order, visible at a distance of
fourteen mile*—will be exhibited. But
of course; due publicity will be given later
as to tbe eutt date.
Tripe.
Occasionally you see a man order
tripe at a hotel, but he always looks
bard, as though he hated himself aud
everybody else. He tries to look as
though he eDjoved it, but he does not.
Tripe is Indigestible, and looks like an
india-rabbia apron for a child to sit on.
When it is pickled it looks like dirty
clothes put to soak, and when it is
oooking it looks as though the cook
was boiling a dish cloth. On the table
it looks like glne, and tastes like a
piece of oil silk umbrella cotfer. A
stomach that is uot lined with corru
gated iron wonld be turned wrong side
out by the Bmell of tripe. A man eat
ing tripe at a hotel table looks likes an
Arctic explorer dining on his boots or
chewing pitces of frozen raw dog.
lou cannot look at a man eating tripe
bnt lie will blush and look as though
he wanted to apologize and convince
you he is taking it to tone up his sys
tem. A woman never eats tripe.
There is not money enough in the world
to hire a woman to take a corner of a
sheet of tripe in her teeth and try to
pull off a piece. Those who eat tripe
are men who have had their stomachs
play mean tricks on them, and they eat
tripe to get even with their stomachs,
and then they go and take a Turkish
bath to sweat it ont of the system.
Tripe is a superstition handed down
from a former generation of butchers,
who sold all the meat aud kept the
tripe lor themselves aud the dogs; but
dogs of the present day will uot eat
tripe. Yon throw a piece of tripe down
in front of a dog, and see if he does
not pat his tail between his legs and go
off aud hate yon. Tripe may have a
value bnt it is uot qg food. It may be
good to fill into a burglar-proof safe,
with the cement aud chilled steel, or it
might answer to use as a breast plate
in time of war, or it would be good to
use for bumpers between cars, or it
would make a good face for the weight
of a pile driver, but when you come to
smuggle it into the stomach you do
wrong. Tnpet Bah! A piece of
Turkish towel cooked in axle grease
would be pie compared with tripe.
—The king of Portugal receives the
salary of $440,000 a year.
beyond is Lake Avemus, an extinct
crater .filled with water. The island of
Ischia, at the northern entrance to the
bay, is crowned by a volcano, Mount
Eiamieo, which lay dormant for five or
six centuries, and tbat burst into erup
tion only a short time ago. Proceeding
towards Sicily we come to a cluster of
small islands, the liest known of which
is Stromlmli, which is almost continual
ly in a state of activity. There, accord
ing to some legends, was situated the
forge of old ' Vulcan, whence sparks
and cinders were perpetually emitted.
Etna itself is tbe largest volcano of the
system, and differs from the others in
structure, as well as in magnitude.
Vesuvius lias only a single ojieuing, anil
so has Stromboli; but all along tbe sides
of Etna secondary jets, several hundred
in number, are found, in addition to the
enormous crater at tbe summit. But
even Etna is not a first-class volcano.
For them we must go to the Andes,
and study Cotopaxi aud Coyambe, or to
the CoreUlleros to Popocatapetl, or to
the terribly energetic systems of tbe
East Indies. Mauniloa, in the Sand
wicli Islands, must also be ranked
among tlie largest and most active of
volcanoes, being, in fact, tlie nucleus of
the Sandwich islands. Mauniloa aud
others of its formation discharge lava,
aud sometimes boiling water; some of the
Andes system belch forth scoriie, stones
and ashes; while Etna and Vesuvius
vary, sometimes sending streams of
burning lava down their slopes, and at
and at others projecting stones and liu;
cinders far into the air, accompanied
usually by a dense shower of ashes
which are carried many miles by the
last which buried Pompeii eighteen
hundred years ago, while Herculaneum
was covered chielly by a deep stream of
lava. Tliis accounts for the fact that
Pompeii is comparatively easily excavat
ed, while Herculaneum must be hewn
as it were, out of the solid rock. Pop
ular opinion lias always laid considera
ble stress upon the fact that most vol
canoes rue either upon the seashore or
wltnin a short distance of it, but
scientific men to-day differ iu the
amount of weight which they attribute
to tliis coincidence. The most trust
worthy of them have not yet decided
just what influence the proximity of the
sea has upon tiie development and ener
gy of these huge vent-holes through
which the mighty subterranean forces
occasionally sjieak to tlie inhabitants of
the earth’s thin crust.
NEWS IN BRIEF,
l’raj-er in the Jury Room.
A reporter had an interview with
George Washington Breakiron of Break
neck, Bullskin township, one of the
jurors in the Dukes case. Breakiron
protested that he did tlie liest lie knew
how, and was innocent before God of
any wrong intention.
“Wliat was the first thing you did
after retiring to the jury room?”
“Well sir, we prayed.”
“Who suggested the idea of praying?
asked the reporter.
“Amalong.”
“Did Amalong pray?”
: “No sir; not out loud anyhow. He
said tve had better pray; they had done
it in that Low trial and lie thought we
ought to do it, too. Clawson was one
of the four church memtiers oil tlie jury
and lie prayed out loud.”
“Did you pray?”
“Nosir;that’ssomething I nevercould
do; but I’ve often wished I was a good
Christian.”
“How long did Clawson pray?’
“I don’t know, sir, CHf we was down
on our knees a good while.”
“Wiiat was the next thing?”
Then, sir, we appointed a foreman
They wanted to appoint me, but I told
them I never was'on a jury liefore and I
did not want to begin on such big cases.
I wanted to try small cases first. So
we picked on McIntyre. Then we
talked the case over. The letters were
read several times. Cagey done the
reading out loud. Amalong tried to
read them, but lie got all mixed up.’
“What did you think of Duke's let
ters?”
“We thought a man should not write
such letters to a father, but we conclud
ed they did not bear directly on the
murder, and we passed over them. . We
decide that Nutt’s letter contained a
bad threat, and after talking the evi
dence over awliile we voted. On the
first ballot three were for manslaughter
and the rest for acquittal except myself.
I did not vote first tune. Amalong
voted for manslaughter on fust ballot,
and after that he went for acquittal,
ne had a good deal to say. Also
Cramer, who was babbling for an ac
quittal, did tlie best lie could.”
“What did you decide as to the slioot-
“ We thought it was done pretty much
in self-defence. ”
Catholic Figures.
According to tlie summary of the
Catholic directory for 1883, tlie hierarchy
of the Catholic Church in the United
States comprises 1 Cardinal, 13 Arch
bishops, 59 Bishops, 6,546 priests, 5,241
churches, besides 1,180 chapels and 1,768
stations, which are-attended by priests,
and where mass is occasionally celebrat
ed. Tlie Catholic population is comput
ed to be 6,832,954. There are 31 eccles
iastical seminaries for the education of
1,434 ecclesiastical students. Tlie num
ber of colleges, 81; academies, 579; and
parochial schools, 2,491. The number
of pupils attending the Catholic schools*
exclusive of colleges and academies, is
given at 428,642. There'are 275 asylums
of various kinds and 185 hospitals. A
comparison of figures will show that
there is but a very slight overaverage of
one priest to every church. The num
ber of educational institutions- foot up
over 3,000, or equal to half the number
of churches.'
—M. Gravy is seventy-tour years old.
—In New Orleans cucumbers are
selling at 7 cents apiece.
—A company at St Louis turns out
200 dozen shovels a day.
— A closely contested election in Eng
land costs about $10,000.
—Brooklyn has added several chemi
cal engines to its department.
The population of Mexico is esti
mated at 10,000,000.
—Montana claims to have 1,000,000
cattle grazing oh her plains.
—Abont one-fifth of the area of Hli-
nois is said to be marsh lands.
—Fere Hyacinthe and his wife intend
to visit America during the summer.
—Ada Car.v Sturgis, the singer, is
senousiy ill at her home in Durham Me.
—At the beginning of 1882 107 112
miles of railway were open in Europe.
—Governor Boynton, ot Georgia
cames his head six feet three inches
high.
-Ex-Governor Talbot, of Massachu
setts. has gohe to seethe uonders'of
Texas.
Etrl of Dudley, whose income
is $5,€00,000 is said to be losing his
mind. °
—The Mala gassy Embassy visited the
tomb of Washington, at Mount Vernon
recently.. ’
, TtL” 1 Canadian port of Sarnia shipped
1,800,000 eggs to New York in one
week.
Flic tlnrty eight savings bunks in
Rhode Island have 112,472 depositor
and $48,320,671 deposits.
— Professor E. S. Dana, of Yale Col
lege, has resumed his college duties
after a severe illness.
Alligators are becoming scarce iu
Florida and their extinction is consider
ed only a question of lime.
—The firemen of Le Roy have organ
ized a benevolent association for disabled
firemen with a capital of $4 300.
—Charles N. Marsh has been chosen
Clerk of the town of Hingham, Mass.,
for twenty-eight consecutive years.
. —^Owing to the unseasonable Autumn
m France between 3.000.000 and 4,000,
0L0 of acres of wheat remain still to b<j
sown.
— Sir William Armstrong, the English
gunmaker, has given $750,000 to New
castle, Eng., daring the lust tweutv
years.
—The Agricultural Department at
Washington, in its final estimate, makes
the cotton crop for the past year 6 835.-
000 bales. '
—In 1860 not a hundredweight of
wheat was exported from fndia; last
year 9,379,225 cwt,, were consigned to
the United Kingdom.
—Tlie fireman’s fnnd of Rochester
now amounts to $47,000. It is for the
benefit of disabled firemen and their
families. - - -
—Baltimore, Md„ has abolished her
board of fire commissioners, and has
given the control of the department to
a fixe marshal.
—Daring the month of January there
were throughout the country twentv-
“ loss of at
§100,000 in each instance.
H,^ T - U mo^ UeSe are B ° ms home - More
than o.OOO departures and ouly twenty
arrivals are recorded since the restric
tion law went into force.
in raT h D d “i >e3t , Sea sonn <Kngsyet taken
m the Pacific shows a depth of 27 935
test, or abont five and one third miles
366 e dee ^ est Adan, ic soundings are 27,1
—Recent investigations warrant the
conclusion that there are in Cochin
China, deposits of gold and silver, beds
of lignite and phospfiate of lime, with
veins of iron ore.
» »7 A | paur o1 b c, ld eagIes have made
their home near Stony Point, Mich, on
the margin of Lake Erie, for uLny
years, and it is believed that they aro
nearly if not quite seventy years old.
—The first extraordinary flood at
Cincinnati on record was in 1792 when
.he water m supposed to have gone
above sixty feet. Xflere was not much
property to destroy at that period, and
therefore little damage could be repor-
Fhe armament of Germany has been
completed. It was begun in 1873. The
expenses have amounted to $132,000 000
paid out of the French war indemnity.'
—The amount of deposits and cash
balances in the joint-stock banks of
Ireland in-June, 1882, was £30,667,000
an increase of more than two millions
over tlie previous year.
There are 1286 school buildings in
Arkansas, valued at $254,217, 129 of the
nurnoer were erected during last year,
lue school teachers number 2418 of
whom 471 are colored.
I* is announced that the late Prince
Charles of Prussia left a fortune of more
than six million dollars, of which three
millions is bequeathed to his son.
—Chauucey Warner, of Cambridge,
Vt., has made arrangements to present
the town of Sfc Alban's with a $30,000
Uonse for use as a free hospital. He
will provide a $25,000 endowment fund
also.
Servia is dependent on foreign
countries for her salt supply, and to
stimulate explorations the Government
offers a prize of $80,000 to the discoverer
of a workable salt mine in the kingdom.
.—A large canoe in excellent condition
has been found near Bax, 4.000 feet
aboye the sea level and nearly 3,000 feet
above the valley of the Rhone. No
Lacustrine relics have ever before been
found in Switzerland at such an eleva
tion.
—The daily earnings iu the cotton
factories of the United States are nearly
double what they were in 1840. The
total number of spinning spindles is
40,653,435; of looms, 225,750. The
actual consumption of cation last year
was 1,760,000 bales.
—It is estimated that there are 200,-
000 vagabonds aud beggars in the Ger
man Empire, including thieves, pick
pockets, and other swindlers, and the
authorities estimate the annual loss to
honest people by their operations at the
enormous sum of $25,000,000.
—Until the latter part of the sixteenth
century knitted stockings were alto
gether unknown in England. The fa
mous pur presented to Queen Elizabeth
oy Mis. Montague in 1560 were of
knitted silk; and they pleased the royal
coquette so much that she declared with
much vehemence she would never wear
cloth ones any "vwe.
